Combining nearly three
decades of motion picture experience, first as an executive, then as a highly
prolific producer and finally as one of American film's most versatile and
successful directors, ROB COHEN (Director) maintains a unique place in
the entertainment industry. Often on the cutting edge of culural (pop and
otherwise) and technological developments, Cohen's films as both producer and
director have swept across a wide range of topics and backdrops.

Cohen most recently
directed Universal Pictures' summer 2001 blockbuster The Fast and the
Furious, a powerful action drama set against the explosively charged
backdrop of underground street racing in Los Angeles. The film, which starred a
young ensemble of cutting-edge talent headed by Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, has
grossed in excess of $145-million at the domestic box office, and won extensive
praise for its highly visceral and imaginative reinvention of the dormant auto
racing genre. The film continued its massive success upon its release on video
and DVD on January 2, 2002, with consumers devouring 85% of the first DVD copies
shipped to dealers in the first five days of release, and setting a first-week
record in DVD rentals. The Fast and the Furious was honored with five
2002 MTV Movie Award nominations, including Best Movie, Best Male Performance (Vin
Diesel), Breakthrough Male (Paul Walker), Best On-Screen Team (Vin Diesel and
Paul Walker) and Best Action Sequence.

In 2000, Universal
released Cohen's provocative thriller The Skulls, which revealed the
machination of Ivy League university secret societies. The film starred Joshua
Jackson, Paul Walker and Leslie Bibb.

Cohen's critically
acclaimed The Rat Pack, an HBO film starring Ray Liotta as Frank Sinatra,
Joe Mantegna as Dean Martin and Don Cheadle as Sammy Davis, Jr., chronicled an
entire era as it toild the story of Hollywood and Las Vegas' most famous
swingers in their heyday. The Rat Pack garnered 11 Emmy Award nominations
(winning three), won Cheadle a Golden Globe Award and earned Cohen a nomination
from the Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Direction of a Television
Film.

Cohen's previous
directorial efforts reveal his expansive storytelling interests. His debut film,
A Small Circle of Friends, starred the late Brad Davis and Karen Allen in
a romance set against the political turmoil of late 1960s Harvard University
(Cohen's alma mater). Heralded both by critics and audiences, Dragon: The
Bruce Lee Story--which was both written and directed by Cohen--humanized the
legendary Hong Kong-born action hero for new generations, and made stars of both
Jason Scott Lee and Lauren Holly. Daylight, starring Sylvester Stallone,
was a big-scale action thriller with high-tech special effects set primarily in
a massive tunnel beneath New York's Hudson River, which was re-created in Rome's
Cinecitta Studios. Daylight was nominated for an Academy AwardÂ® for Best Sound
Effects Editing.

For Dragonheart,
visual effects made a quantum leap in Cohen's epic fable of an unlikely
alliance in mythical times between a knight (Dennis Quaid) and a fierce but
noble dragon endowed with the powers of speech (voiced by Sean Connery). Cohen
was intricately involved with both the design of the massive creature and
implementation of the state-of-the-art effects by Industrial Light & Magic,
the first time that a major motion picture character was fully rendered
digitally. The film won the Saturn Award as Best Fantasy Film of 1996, and was
nominated for an Academy AwardÂ® for Best Visual Effects.

Cohen was born in
Cornwall-on-Hudson in New York. He attended Harvard University, from which he
graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in anthropology. He began his career in
film during his sophomore year at Harvard, when he assisted director Daniel
Petrie in ma